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Who do you want to be?
Its a simple question isn't it? But very few people can answer it. Other than my favourite 6 year old who has been adamant for some time that she’s going to be a vet because she loves nature; most people have no idea who they want to be. If you ask them they are dumbfounded, before offering an honest “I dont know”, or a weak regurgitation of whatever they have been told is right.
Most youngsters have a dream and most of them will give up on it. In other cases people get to where they thought they wanted to be, only to realise it’s not all that Hollywood made it out to be.
In the 90’s legal dramas were hot, so people swarmed into law degrees and law school, usually to end up chained a desk and wondering why they believed the hype and the glamour in the first place. And the 80’s were worse. Magnum and the boys from Miami Vice both drove Ferraris. They must have had a seriously lucrative sideline because I don’t know any private investigators or law enforcement officers with the money for wheels like that.
According to Arnold Schwarzenegger, the first rule of success is this; you must have a vision. In my own life I can easily recall the few times I could clearly see what I wanted and made it happen. But for most of the time, most people don’t know who they want to be, or what they want, so they have no vision. And according to the Terminator, that’s not…
